Francisco Davalos

I am not sure that global warming is a product of human activity, but the difference between acting now and keeping the same path seems to be a matter of life for millions of people beyond three to five decades.

The claim of Steorn in connection with their device will come down soon as a hoax or a scam if they don’t take actions in order to demonstrate the world the validity of their experiment. Yesterday’s afternoon (here in Mexico), the CEO of Steorn was interviewed in a Dublin radio station TodayFM, fortunately I could listen it in whole and he did not revealed a lot but he seemed quite sure about his words.

If this device is for real, the Earth needs it urgently, that means now. All of us deserve a better world, but as soon as I write this words I start thinking that this will not get to a happy ending, eventhough if it’s true.

What it’s important after all, is that we are disscussing the energy theme and right now we have the oportunity to change and give a second chance to renewable fuels: Biodiesel, Ethanol or Hydrogen as well as electric powered automoviles.

Why automoviles first? Because it would be easier to start with those than converting electric plants from using hydrocarbons to other fuels, at least in our third world countries.

The time to make the difference is today.

No estoy muy seguro que el calentamiento global sea producto de la actividad humana, sin embargo la diferencia entre hacer algo al respecto o seguir por el mismo camino parece ser un asunto de vida o muerte para millones de personas en un plazo de entre tres y cinco décadas.

La propuesta de Steorn con relación a su “invento” pronto se considerará como un fraude si no toman las acciones adecuadas con el fin de demostrar al mundo la validez de sus experimentos. Ayer por la tarde  (aquí en México), el Director General de Steorn fue entrevistado en una radidifusora de Dublín, TodayFM, afortunadamente, pude escuchar al conversación por completo y la verdad es que no reveló gran cosa, sin embargo se mostró seguro respecto de sus afirmaciones.

Si este mecanismo funciona, nuestro planeta Tierra lo necesita urgentemente, lo que en pocas palabras significa: ahora. Creo que merecemos un mejor lugar donde vivir y sin embargo, tan pronto escribo estas palabras comienzo a pensar que esto no llegará a un final feliz aún cuando el descubrimiento fuera cierto.

Sin embargo lo importante es que el tema de los energéticos está a discusión y creo que es momento de dar una segunda oportunidad a los combustibles de fuentes renovables tales como el Biodiesel, Etanol o inclusive Hidrógeno, así como también a los autos eléctricos.

¿Por que los autos primero? Porque me parece que es más fácil comenzar por ahí, donde ya existe un gran avance que intentar cambiar, por ejemplo, las plantas generedoras de electricidad, cuando menos en nuestros países del tercer mundo.

El tiempo de hacer la diferencia es hoy.

As I am a perfect ignorant, most of the time I expect people to prove their words; and as I am not a scientist, I am not able to refuse much of such information.

It’s clear that our world needs clean energy sources, but as long as there’s “no free lunch”, talking about free energy sounds more lika a “waco” stuff that something to believe in.

One of the greatest minds in our world was Nikola Tesla, who supposedly make an old car work with an electric motor with no power source other than a large antenna wired to a black fuse box.

Unfortunately, Tesla’s discovery wasn’t proved by third parties, but now, just a couple of days ago, a company in Dublin Ireland is challenging the scientific world to prove them wrong.

Steorn discovery is related with the use of magnetic fields in order to use them as power sources for almost everything from a cellphone battery to whatever you name.

Rudoplh Diesel, the inventor of the Diesel Engine, get on board of a ship while his invention run with a mixture of vegetable oil. He died in the ship and his engine was unveiled later to the public running hydrocarbon “Diesel”.

In this new era, such a discovery, if true, will shake our social structure, and I hope Steorn crew have a nice trip and keep safe in orther to disembark the way Rudolph Diesel couldn’t.

Here are the links for Tesla car and Steorn:

http://www.keelynet.com/energy/teslafe1.htm

http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx?p=1

Yesterday while coming back to Mexico, the airplane tumbled three times, and it dit it strong enough to make some people shout and the pilot ask his crew to return immediately to their seats and do not stand up until we landed.

It seems like our country is shaking other structures as well as the yesterday’s plane. Unfortunately, Mexico’s democracy is shaking because of the tiranny of the minorities. Our democracy is only focusing in the legality and legitimacy of elections, and the politicians have abused of the ignorance in order to proclaim their victory. The tiranny of the minority seems to have no end. None of the three political parties have a real majority, even more, the people that did not voted in our past election are as much as those who voted for the two political parties with more votes together.

It’s a shame that our country and our city, is living this situation where the posibilities and choices are less, not only in connection with political parties but with sore day to day decissions like which street am I gonna drive?

Victoria, the capital of the Beutiful (a well deserved adjective) British Columbia is a city where democracy is not a flag for politicians but a way of life. I am not sure if someone overthere will read this but I am positive amazed for what I saw. In this beautiful city you can use Toyota Prius as taxi cabs (hybrids) or even arrive to the city in a ship powered by biodiesel. Long live Victoria!

For all of our third world leaders a simple question: when are you going to realize that democracy is not being the dictator of o piece of land but a way of life in which making choices is the best way to have a better life? when we, the people are going to understand this and fight for it? When are we going to understand the meaning of democracy?

Ayer por la noche me volvió a ocurrir. Al irme a acostar todo parece normal, sin embargo en un momento de la noche hago conciencia de que no estoy respirando y sin embargo me siento comodamente bien. Ayer al sentir esta situación decidí levantarme a orinar y vi claramente que el reloj junto a la cama marcaba las 3:15 am, cual fue mi sorpresa al regresar del baño y encontrarme ahí metido en la cama durmiendo placidamente. El reloj seguía marcando las 3:15 y el segundero estaba inmóvil. No se como describir la sensación de verte desde fuera, traté de calmarme, cerre los ojos y me metí en la cama.

Hoy por la mañana el grito de mi esposa me levanto con algo de susto: ¿por que no le jalas al baño? y mi mirada se posó en el relojito que con toda normalidad marcaba las 6:17 am.

 Posiblemente el mejor título para este post sería : Un Estado Rebasado.

 Al margen del exceso en la defensa llevada a cabo por Israel al atacar a todo un país, sustentado en una supuesta acción punitiva en contra de los seguidores del Partido de Dios en Líbano, la otra Guerra, la que como Estado parece que vamos perdiendo, es la que está ocurriendo en nuestro país, me explico.

 ¿Quien puede creer que los mismo hombres atacan en Tijuana, cometen homicidios en Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, sitian poblados en Tabasco o Michoacán? Todo, ante la mirada impacible del Estado.

 ¿Quién conoce la cifra oficial de muertos, heridos o afectados de esta otra Guerra? Si a la cifra anterior sumamos los inmigrantes legales e ilegales que han salido en México en los últimos seis años, el escenario podría sorprendernos… o a lo mejor no. La sorpresa ante el ataque al Cuartel de Madera en aquel lejano 23 de septiembre de 1965 parece ya no existir en la mente de los mexicanos y peor aún, ha sido reemplazado por la indiferencia ante el ataque al cuartel de policía en Cunduacán.

 Como Estado hemos sido rebasados por los actores que no están dispuestos a someterse a la ley. En el territorio nacional, los actores antes mencionados atacan al Gobierno constituído y atentan en contra del Pueblo, entiéndase sociedad; así todos somos los efectivamente “vicitimizados”, convirtiéndonos en rehenes y complices al no denunciar. La incompetencia y colusión de las personas involucradas en las Instituciones gubernamentales es obvia, insultante.

 Legalizar el uso de la droga es imperante y tratar a los adictos es la única solución, lo demás es crear cortinas de humo, que si bien esconden el problema, también sirven para ocultar a los que desde el Estado continuan beneficiándose.

Must of us expected a decision like this since a year or so. Mexico will anticipate a 7 billion dollars payment for the WB and the BID lowering our debt from a 7.3% to a 6.4% of the GDP. I wrote we expected it earlier because  in the last months our currency has been pressed because of the next month’s elections. The news are good because the government will buy to the National Bank part of its reserves that on June 16, 2006 summed 76.7 billion dollars, in order to pay a part of the 57 billion dollar foreing debt. Today’s currency exchange is 11.43 pesos per dollar and the oil barrel (Texas) is nearly 71.00 usd, a year ago you could pay a dollar with 10.76 pesos and the Texas oil was at 59.37usd.

1. Waiting a year costed us (mexicans) 11.43-10.76=0.67*7 billion dollars= 46,900,000,000.00 pesos; plus,

2. Interests paid for the same year.

3. As we can see oil prices went up, not down as the federal government anticipated, so we could have paid it earlier. Brazil, Argentina and Nigeria did it better, but finally we are taking the steps our country needs.

Unfortunately, not all news are good news. We are finding out that Felipe Calderon, running for the presidential election supported by the conservative party PAN, helped his brother’s wife in order to obtain millions of dollars in contracts in the energy section, but he wasn’t alone. Juan Bueno Torio, running for the Senate, supported by the same political party gave millions of dollars in contracts to his family and friends while he worked in PEMEX.

In the 2000 election, the PRI used money from PEMEX in order to pay the political campaign and when knew, the scandal was named “The PEMEXgate” in an allussion to “Watergate”. It seems like in Mexico, the “gates” are wide open for bandits and we still vote for them as our representatives.

On Chippla’s blog, you’ll find a couple of interesting posts that will clearify this ideas.

http://chippla.blogspot.com/2006/04/as-nigeria-becomes-debt-free.html

http://chippla.blogspot.com/2006/06/iran-america-and-foreign-exchange.htm

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/139764.html

Disfrutar de escribir en mi idioma natal es un gusto especial, me abre las posibilidades para explorar palabras escondidas, olvidadas o de plano temidas. No solo el gusto por escribirlas, sino también por leerlas, hacerlas conjunto e interpretar al que escribe mas allá de la frontera geopolítica, imperceptible muchas veces en el mundo virtual. Hoy las palabras, necias, como siempre me han encontrado ( me encuentran ellas, es parte de ser afortunado (¿?)), y he querido compartir el grato momento con ustedes: Relatus Patheticus, escrito por Marco Montellano en Mundo al revés. Me gustó, me gustó tanto como abrir paréntesis en mis escritos, lo disfruté como un paréntesis en la vida. Diviértanse tanto como yo, el blog contiene información sobre Bolivia, un país más con recursos petroleros. Lo añadimos a la lista.

http://www.mundoalreves.com/mar_seccion/articulo.php?ID_art=211

Sometimes, we are not in the mood of being surprised. Good luck or bad luck is something to be out of our hands, making a slight but important difference between taking a chance and having good luck (or bad, ouch!!).

Hard working people that have obtained material succes in our societies, most of the time prefer to say that there’s no good luck, indeed, you can obtain what you want with the correct preparation and the opportunity. L=P+O

7:19am you are leaving your apartment to work, suddenly, an earthquake occurs, the building where you live falls appart and you enter to the ruins taking out your wife, leaving her “safe” and entering again to the ruins to rescue your only child. While in there, ruins collapse.

True strory, please forward this to ten persons…

OK… the story is true and under a “clean” view, is only an event, no adjectives, no following adverbs, just an event or a chain of events. But what about luck?

L=P+O is not the correct answer, or not for me. Could we afirm that opportunities come by luck?

Some days ago, a friend of mine that has a great economic success told me to install an aquarium in my bussiness for good luck. I won’t mess with others luck, so I installed this little aquarium. After a couple of days I have discovered that this little world calms me and instead of yelling I am worried about the temperature or whatever. After a minute of relax, my mind is clear and my thoughts straight again.

Two Aequidens Rivulatus and two Plecostemus live together, how long would they live? I don’t know as well as I don’t know how many days I am going to live, evenmore, I do not know how many of this days I’ll be happy, sad, healthy or sick. I don’t know if I’ll win the Melate (lotto) or just let it pass.

So, it seems that you have to be lucky in order to believe in luck.

The first days of March 2001, the world knew that the ancient Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, were destroyed. We all thought it was a barbaric act against human history. You can be against someone’s ideas, acts or attitudes, but as long as you are not damaged or affected in your person, family or properties, you have to respect.

Yesterday, the Mexicans have a terrible view of what an intolerant act is. The conservative Major of the city of Colima in the middle east Mexico, decided to “move” an “”"OBSCENE STATUE”"”.

I still remember my history classes and the “underwear” added to some paintings as well as mutilations to some “indecent” sculptures. Nudity is obscene only in twisted minds.

Leoncio Morán Sanchez, is the Mexican Taliban. In his stupid attempt, he damaged, in an irreversible way, the statue made and doned by José Luis Cuevas. The statue is placed in state land, not city’s land, in the middle of a circle. The author has filed a demand against the major and hopefully he will be punished.

This is not the first time that a conservative authority from the National Action Party (PAN) take “Action” against indecent or immoral attitudes such as saying “bad” words in public or even worse, using mini skirts in goverment facilities.

This is the Mexico of our days, that it looks like the Mexico before the 1910 civil war. What a shame.

Links are in spanish

 http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/48942.html

http://www.etcetera.com.mx/2000/390/pm390.html

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/cgi-bin/print.pl?id=revista-20040328-02